Claudine Nash is an award-winning poet who lives and writes in New York. She obtained her undergraduate degree in English and Psychology from Wesleyan University and later went on to obtain two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. Heavily influenced by her background in psychology, her poetry often delves into such topics as loss, healing and the liberation of releasing the past.
Winner of the 2020 Blue Light Book Award for her book Beginner’s Guide to Loss in the Multiverse (Blue Light Press, 2020), Claudine has authored a number of other collections including The Wild Essential (Kelsay Books: Aldrich Press, 2017) and Parts per Trillion (Kelsay Books: Aldrich Press, 2016) as well as the chapbooks Things for Which You Thirst (Weasel Press, 2020) and The Problem with Loving Ghosts (Finishing Line Press, 2014). She has also edited three anthologies: Epiphanies and Late Realizations of Love (Transcendent Zero Press, 2019), Destigmatized (Madness Muse Press, 2017) and In So Many Words: A Collection of Interviews and Poems from Today’s Poets (Madness Muse Press, 2016).
Her poetry has earned numerous literary distinctions including nominations for the Pulitzer, Pushcart, and Best of Net as well as various prizes from such publications and organizations as Artist’s Embassy International, The Song Is…, Thirty West Publishing House, and Eye on Life Magazine among others.
Internationally published, her work can be found in numerous magazines and anthologies including Cloudbank, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Star*Line, The MOON magazine, Foliate Oak, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Dime Show Review and Star 82 Review.